Charles Lawrence: Premature celebration of Obamacare's collapse

Hard-core right wingers are rubbing their hands in delight! Obamacare is off to a bad start and, with luck, the entire program will collapse.

Hard-core right wingers are rubbing their hands in delight! Obamacare is off to a bad start and, with luck, the entire program will collapse.

They never wanted any changes to our nation's health care system because "It's the best system in the world!" Never mind the millions of uninsured, forget the tens of thousands of others who go bankrupt because they can't afford to pay for a catastrophic illness and disregard the crippling rises in the cost of health insurance.

Forget all that! They got theirs and it's another chance to humiliate President Obama.

Trouble with Obamacare dovetails perfectly with their plans to privatize Social Security, turn Medicare into a voucher system, provide more tax relief for the wealthiest individuals and more power for corporations.

That's why you can hear them celebrating, just as the NFL's New Orleans Saints must have begun celebrating toward the end of that game with the New England Patriots back in October. After that one, Coach Bill Belichick told reporters afterwards, "Sorry you had to rewrite some of those stories at the end."

Charles Lawrence
Johnston

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